GENERAL GABLE MEWS
clandestine polygamy. CONSTANTINOPLE; May 13. Although polygamy has been forbidden by law in Turkey since 192(3, numerous polygamous -unions have taken place since then, and it is bclived that there are about 4,000,000 “•hidden children” as the result. Parents of the unregistered offspring of these illegal unions are now being asked to declare their “hidden children” so that they may be made citizens of the Republic. Tens of thousands of these “illegitimate” children are . being registered, the parents having been granted pardons under the amnesty law oi last year., It must be observed that Only the children, ana not the illegal unions, , are being recognised. The polygamous marriages contracted since 1926 are. still, invalid. Turkey’s, population is expected to rise- from 14,000,000, to 18,000,000 when the hidden chidren and other unregistered persons arc added.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 8
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